JAMMU, Dec 5: The displaced persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today staged protest demonstration, demanding disbursement of relief amount as announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year.
The displaced persons from PoK under the banner of PoJK Refugees Front-1947, 65, 71 assembled near Press Club here and started protest demanding justice for displaced persons from PoJK and other categories.
The members of displaced community led by Rachhpal Singh Chib , president, assembled at Exhibition Ground in the morning and started their protest. They demanded that process of distribution of Rs 2000 crore package announced by Prime Minister be started without any delay. They claimed that this amount should not be treated as full and final package as many other components of the package have been ignored.
The displaced persons including women activists strongly demanded that Govt should provide them justice. They were also protesting against the PRO for his allegedly shady role in previous package during 2000 and ignoring many deserving families. They said there was no clarity in PM's package and all type of displaced persons were still confused. They also demanded enhancement in package announced.
Chib while addressing the protesting DPs said State Govt issued notification during March this year through DC Jammu, inviting documents to be submitted along with application form for all categories of DPs for claims. The PRO and DC have been appointed as designated authorities for this purpose. It is strange that even after several months no additional staff has been deployed to verify the documents of the DPs at the designated offices. He demanded inclusion of 5300 left out families, ownership rights to DPs of 1947, issuance of ALC certificate to DPs and reservation to their wards. He demanded Rs 30 lakh compensation for each DP family.


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In the 1940s, a pair of handsome, determined entrepreneurs arrived in California to build their vision of an earthly paradise high in the hills above Los Angeles. By the '50s, the flamingo-pink Spanish house at the top of the hill had become a lavish hedonistic enclave, hidden by a lush orchard and dense cactus garden. Over the next seven decades, the Flamingo Estate became the headquarters for a pioneering erotic film company, a creative retreat for photographers and artists, a pirate-radio station, a fanzine publishing company, a political fundraising team, and an unlikely center for cultural self-examination and expanding notions of art.
For the past three years, the estate has been painstakingly restored for Chandelier by Paris-based Studio Ko. New structures and a collection of sculpture and art have been introduced to the site, from artists like David Hockney, Ken Done, Andy Warhol, and Paul Kasper.
The estate's sprawling garden was revived thanks to the help of French collaborator Arnaud Casaus. With an earth-friendly approach to water management and soil improvement, the old, parched terraces have been reborn, now home to over 150 new species of flowers and shrubs from around the world, including a vibrant fruit and vegetable garden with apples, citrus, plums, pears, avocados, macadamia nuts, olives, and peaches. Together, they provide food and home to a variety of welcome guests, including hummingbirds, owls, butterflies, and bees.
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"From culture to horticulture, the goal of Flamingo Estate at Tenemos Garden is to encourage middle fingers and green thumbs — to foster creativity and beauty and pursue creative liberation in everything we do."
WHAT HAPPENS THERE NOW THOUGH?
Flamingo Estate is about progress: partnering with groups and individuals working to change the game. Ben Falk and Whole Systems Design are using permaculture techniques to create a "green island" in order to adapt to California's water crisis. We're also using the space as a creative retreat that provides a genius loci ("protective spirit") for culture, horticulture, and as an incubator for individuals with radical business ideas.
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Пенский — фамилия.

Известные носители:
 Пенский, Иван Иванович — Георгиевский кавалер, полковник.
 Пенский, Олег Геннадьевич (род. 1959) —  российский математик.
 Пенский, Платон Иванович (1775—1843) — генерал-майор, картограф.
 Пенский, Юлиан Романович (1859—1920) — врач-хирург, профессор Харьковского университета.

 Пенская, Марианна Яновна (род. 1959) — советский и американский математик, жена О. Г. Пенского.

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T-Mobile Begins Charging DIGITS Users For Free Line
Olivia Wilson August 12, 2022 3 min read
Are you a T-Mobile user that's received a text message from Magenta claiming you owe $5 a month for a DIGITS line? If so, chances are you received the free DIGITS promo but then dropped the T-Mobile ONE Plus service from your account.
That's the latest from T-Mo News. According to the publication, some T-Mobile DIGITS line users are now getting charged for what was a free line back in 2017. Some have been confused about the charge, but the publication says that the charge is justified because the free DIGITS line was conditional upon keeping the ONE Plus service on the user's account.
When T-Mobile gave the free promo in 2017, it did so as an incentive to encourage T-Mobile One users to add the ONE Plus feature which brought 10GB of mobile hotspot data and HD video streaming for free, features that once cost $25 extra per month to possess. T-Mobile CEO John Legere did this as a strike back at Verizon, taking to Twitter to make the announcement:
T-Mobile announced its DIGITS program on May 31, 2017. DIGITS was designed to allow T-Mobile users the right to use their wireless number on not just smartphones and tablets but even desktops. The DIGITS number even works with devices on other networks, such as Sprint, for example. It works similar to AT&T's NumberSync, where users have one wireless phone number that works for all their devices, the exception being that T-Mo's DIGITS works cross-network and is not carrier-exclusive. Whenever someone calls the wireless number, all active devices send an alert to their owner.
T-Mobile's ONE Plus service, once offering only 10GB of moile hotspot and HD video streaming, now brings unlimited HD streaming and 20GB of 4G LTE mobile hotspot data, alongside unlimited in-flight Wi-Fi on Gogo-enabled flights, Voicemail to Text, and even Name ID to identify unknown numbers for $15 per line per month. In May of this year, T-Mobile renamed its T-Mobile One plan "Magenta," while adding 3GB of 4G LTE mobile hotspot and unlimited 3G hotspot use. T-Mobile's ONE Plus is now "Magenta Plus," maintaining the same 20GB of 4G LTE and unlimited HD streaming along with a Netflix Standard Subscription.
Conditional agreements such as DIGITS occur all the time. For example, Verizon Wireless offers a monthly credit for a new smartphone with an eligible trade-in, but the user must keep his or her line for twenty-four months to receive the monthly bill credit. Users who remove the line before two years expire are forced to pay the entire remaining balance on the phone — no more bill credits given.
T-Mobile won't have to worry about DIGITS working on Sprint smartphones considering that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) have both signed off on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger on Friday, July 26th. T-Mobile gets Sprint and its customers, bringing the Magenta carrier to some 132 million subscribers. In exchange for Sprint, T-Mobile conceded Sprint MVNOs Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and the Sprint Prepaid brand. All of Sprint's MVNO/Prepaid business now belongs to DISH Network and its co-founder, Charlie Ergen.
Ergen has been looking for something to do with his wireless spectrum, and he now has the network to build a fourth independent wireless carrier in the States. The 400 employees and 7,500 retail outlets that once belonged to Sprint are now DISH's, alongside $3.6 billion worth of Sprint's 800MHz spectrum. DISH has officially become the fourth US carrier, picking up Sprint's smaller offerings for prepaid customers.
The deal has been announced, and T-Mobile and Sprint could merge officially in about two to three years. DISH will acquire Sprint's prepaid brands some three months after the deal is finalized.
While T-Mobile DIGITS customers who reneged on their ONE Plus service agreement are now out of an extra $5 a month, there is some good news: the DoJ has forced T-Mobile to use e-SIMs (or electronic SIM cards) in its smartphones as a result of the merger. E-SIMs differ from regular SIM cards in that first, they aren't physical SIM cards to place inside smartphones. Next, e-SIMs allow users to switch carriers remotely (say, at home), rather than needing to visit a local carrier store to obtain a new SIM card when switching.
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Q: VB.NET Search Text File for Customer Number and display entire customer record in listbox I am new to Visual Basic 2010 and have been banging my head against the wall with this one.
I have a form that accepts user input and saves it to a text file in the following format:
"Customer #:" 00
Doe, John
10350 Some Street
City, State Zip Code
Telephone Number
"Account Balance: $" 00.00
"Date Of Last Payment:" Month/Day/Year
I have a text box where the user inputs either a customer number or last name depending upon which check box is checked. The purpose of this is to search the text file for a customer record by last name or customer number.
When Searched I would like  the customer with the last name or customer number
used in the search displayed in a listbox.
Here is the code I have below:
Private Sub btnSearch_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)   Handles btnSearch.Click
    'Local Variables

    Dim ReadCustomerRecords As StreamReader
    Dim strCustomerNumber As String

    ' Validate Search Criteria
    If chkCustomerNumber.Checked = False And chkLastName.Checked = False Then
        MessageBox.Show("Please select either Customer Number OR Last Name" & vbNewLine   & "to narrow your search.", "Attention")

    End If
    If chkCustomerNumber.Checked And chkLastName.Checked Then
        MessageBox.Show("You may only search by Customer Number OR Last Name." & vbNewLine & "Please revise your search.", "Attention")
    End If

    If chkCustomerNumber.Checked Then
        ReadCustomerRecords = File.OpenText(strCustomerRecordsFile)
        strCustomerNumber = ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine()
        Do Until strCustomerRecordsFile.Contains(txtSearchFile.Text)

            If strCustomerNumber.Contains(txtSearchFile.Text) Then
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(strCustomerNumber)
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
                lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(ReadCustomerRecords.ReadLine())
            Else
                MessageBox.Show("The customer number you entered is not valid." & vbNewLine & "Please try again or search by Last Name.", "Attention")
            End If
            Return
        Loop
        ReadCustomerRecords.Close()
    End If

    If chkLastName.Checked Then
        ReadCustomerRecords = File.OpenText(strCustomerRecordsFile)
    End If
End Sub

A: The condition in this:
Do Until strCustomerRecordsFile.Contains(txtSearchFile.Text)

Is likely causing your loop not to terminate properly as it means until the name of the file contains the search term, do the code which is inside the loop. Since the name of the file never changes, your loop is likely not terminating properly.
With regards to searching the text file, you could do something instead like:
If chkCustomerNumber.Checked Then
    Dim custRecords() as String = File.ReadAllLines(strCustomerRecordsFile)
    Dim isRecordFound as Boolean = false

    For i As Integer = 0 To custRecords.Length - 1
         If custRec(i).Contains(txtSearchFile.Text) Then
             isRecordFound = true;

             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 1))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 2))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 3))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 4))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 5))
             lstCustomerSearch.Items.Add(custRec(i + 6))

             Exit For
         End If
    Next

    If Not isRecordFound Then
         MessageBox.Show("The customer number you entered is not valid." & vbNewLine & "Please try again or search by Last Name.", "Attention")
    End If
End If

So it's a little different but:

*

*We use File.ReadAllLines to read all the lines in your text file into an array of strings (each array element is one line). You could still use StreamReader like you are doing, but for simplicity the example uses File.ReadAllLines

*Once we have the contents of your file, we can loop through and find the relevant customer ID (see below for a comment about this)

*Once we have found the customer ID we replicate what you were doing with reading the next lines via the StreamReader with looking at the next elements in the array (noting that each array element is a file line)...A defensiveness check for you to implement here would be that we are trying to "look ahead" in the array by a number of elements but if there aren't that many elements left in the array you'll get an exception about the index being out of bounds

*We can Exit For from the loop after a record has been found because it's a bit pointless to proceed any further

PS. For your file format an alternative for you to consider is to have an entire record on one line and delimited (e.g. you could use a "|" or something like that to separate records) instead of on multiple lines.
PPS. Be careful with using the Contains clause for searching because "02" would also match an address like "1002 Fake Street" instead of an ID you are looking for so you might dredge up false positives. Tweaking your file format should help you get around this.

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Team buildings are great opportunities to discuss other topics beside the day to day activities because they provide the location, time and relaxation needed to touch deeper subjects like "happiness", "growth", "connection". I think that only by bringing these subjects to the table people can identify common concerns and glue together as a team to plan and overcome difficulties. Only by talking openly there is a chance that work, life quality in the office and meaning will improve. Of course, actions must be taken but, initiating the talk is the first step.


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Good Boys Reviews Are Up, Here's What The Critics Are Saying
Aug. 14. 2019 5:57 PM
This year hasn't been a particularly strong one for comedies so far. So at the end of the summer season, Hollywood is handing it off to the next generation to bring big laughs with the release of Good Boys. The R-rated comedy follows the misadventures of three 12-year-old boys who are ridden with the anxieties of being invited to a "kissing party" without ever have kissed a girl, crossing freeways, coming across sex toys and yelling F-bombs along the way.
The reviews are officially in for Good Boys ahead of its release this Friday,l and overall it has landed in the good graces of critics. Let's start off with CinemaBlend's own Eric Eisenberg, who awarded the movie with 4 out of 5 stars in his review. Check out his thoughts:
Poignant as it can be at times, though, it's comedy that is always steering the ship, and the movie is littered with fantastic and memorable sequences… It plays at many speeds without veering too far away from reality, and is consistently funny.
He was impressed with the combination of hilarious comedic moments, emotional scenes and standout performances from young actors Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon and Keith L. Williams. Their characters, who call themselves "The Beanbag Gang," had him laughing from beginning to end, and these days that's a tough find in movies.
Indiewire's Eric Kohn also enjoyed Good Boys, comparing it to Superbad. Considering the writers of the 2007 classic, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were producers on this release, it's no wonder why. Here's what Kohn said in his review:
It follows many of the familiar beats of a story about neighborhood boys who just want to have fun. But that formula has never centered on sixth graders, and the entertainment value of watching them curse their way through lewd daylong adventure injects fresh entertainment value into a familiar routine. While the pace is spotty and not every joke lands, Good Boys manages to be adorable and twisted at the same time.
Because Good Boys flips Superbad on its head and is told from the perspective of middle-schoolers, it finds a fresh angle to the raunchy bro comedy. Kohn also said there are plenty of "aww" moments to witness with the boys.
However, not every critic shared his enthusiasm for the movie's bit. Check out the words of Guardian's Kristy Puchko in her 3 star review:
It's mostly the same jokes over and over: cute kids cursing and not understanding sex stuff. Initially, it's jolting fun to see these baby-faced boys dropping F-bombs or mistaking a cache of BDSM gear for "weapons" and a sex doll for a CPR dummy. ("It's sticky.") But as the boys run screaming through the second act, these bits offer diminishing returns. The foul language becomes a bit numbing.
The Guardian writer found the jokes to get tiresome midway through the movie as it's a whole lot of the same types of quips. This is certainly something to keep in mind, as not every moviegoer will find its humor endearing. However, she did say Good Boys redeems itself in the third act when the movie focuses on the characters over crudeness.
Variety's Dennis Harvey was also unimpressed with Good Boys specific brand on comedy. Here's what he said:
Good Boys is fast-paced and energetic, but its bad-taste humor seldom rises above the pedestrian. Even when the gags aren't strictly scatological, as in a dangerous dash across a busy highway stretch (hey, gotta get to the mall one way or another) or a paintball skirmish at a frat house, they're still not very clever.
It looks like whether the comedy strikes you as funny is up to your personal taste. "Clever" or not, Den of Geek's Rosie Fletcher found this aspect of the film to be its best strength:
It's a rite of passage for the three who are gently learning who they are outside of the safe haven of The Beanbag Boys, encountering teenage girls, first love and their own growing individuality. What makes this work so well is the central performances – all three kids are completely adorable and despite some bad judgments and misunderstandings, they really are all good boys.
The three kids lead Good Boys with earnestness and believability and it's what grounds the comedy into something special, per Fletcher's words. It's not just about filthy mouths and gross gags, it has heart at its center!
Good Boys hits theaters this weekend alongside other new releases Angry Birds Movie 2, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Blinded By The Light and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Will you be checking out Good Boys this weekend? Let us know in the comments below!
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"Ursula," the last song on the album is also very good, with cool reverbed guitar stabs that almost echo each other. This is paired with another chorus heavy guitar riff and very exciting drums. "Ursula" is a really pretty song, but part of me wishes it had vocals because of how good the vocals sounded on the other two songs. But altogether, Sleeping Witch & Saturn is a really fun Gothic Post-Punk project that wears it's 80's influences on its sleeve but sounds pretty fresh nonetheless. There isn't a bad song on this project, my only wish is that there was more, but I'll wait patiently for more new material from Sleeping Witch & Saturn and jam to these three songs in the meantime.


Train healthcare workers in Botswana.
Opened in 2005, the Boehringer Ingelheim Training and Facilitation Unit in Gaborone, Botswana trains general practitioners, physicians, occupational health specialists, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, medical store managers, healthcare managers and health ministry officials. Since its foundation in 2005, some 7,100 attendees have taken part in training activities at the unit. Working with partners such as Harvard University, the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the WHO, it provides continuing medical education workshops, courses and lectures on the management of acute myocardial infarction, hypertension, diabetes, asthma and HIV/AIDS, along with Good Clinical Practice, leadership training, customer relations, pediatric care, biopharmaceuticals and pharmacovigilance,. It also undertakes public health awareness and education programs (see separate program entry in Chronic Disease section), and hosts meetings of the Botswana Medical Society, the HIV Clinician Society, the Pharmaceutical Society of Botswana and other associations.
The Boehringer Ingelheim Endowed Chair in Clinical Pharmacology was set up in 2009 and helps to raise the status of health professionals and facilitates the provision of vital training to young interns and doctors, helping to advance the fight against HIV/AIDS in Botswana. It helps to lay the foundations for the Botswana Medical School, opened in 2013.
In 2006, the first pharmacy student from Botswana started at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa under a Botswana government program funded by Boehringer Ingelheim. Beneficiaries are required to work in the public sector after completing their studies.
Boehringer Ingelheim South Africa established a partnership with the Government of Botswana to build an infectious disease care clinic (IDCC) at Gumare, a small rural village on the outskirts of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The clinic, officially opened in 2007, serves the community for general healthcare requirements and the Anti-retroviral (ARV) Clinic Sponsorship helps to overcome the ARV treatment bottlenecks in this area.
HIV/AIDS has a major impact on health in Botswana and Boehringer Ingelheim currently runs two clinical trials there for its nevirapine ARV. A new extended release mechanism for this ARV is being evaluated which will hopefully benefit women suffering from HIV/AIDS in Botswana. The first HIV study was initiated in 2008. Boehringer Ingelheim's ongoing clinical trial work in Botswana also addresses hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction and stroke, which are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the country. Boehringer Ingelheim was the first company to identify and train private practitioners to conduct clinical trials in Botswana, while at the same time bringing important research work to the Princess Marina Hospital and other medical centers.


This land has long been the cause of disagreement between Egypt and Israel. In Biblical times, God appeared to Moses in the burning bush at Mount Sinai, then parted the Red Sea so Moses could lead the Israelites to freedom after years of oppression suffered at the hands of the Pharaoh. Fast forward to 1967 and the Six-Day War, when Israeli invaded and took control of the peninsular (along with The West Bank, The Gaza Strip, The Golan Heights and East Jerusalem). Then in 1980 they returned the peninsular to Egypt. For the moment peace has returned.
It is highly ironic that such contested land should be given over to tourism so lightly by the Egyptians. Different rules apply on The Red Sea coast. Alcohol is freely available, locals bat no eyelids when confronted by the skimpy attire of sun-seeking westerners. This has a lot to do with the fact that this land belongs to the mighty Bedouin, who are Arabs, not Egyptians, and who sit in their land a little bemused at the strange behaviour of both parties.
Not that you will notice any of this once you've checked into your hotel. The past is the past, the present is the present. And the present is a good place to be. With 364 days of sunshine, business is booming on the Red Sea coast. Army tanks have been replaced by oxygen tanks, which divers use to explore some of the best reefs in the world (including a few made from sunken warships). It attracts an eclectic crowd: Russians, British, Italians, Arabs, even Egyptians favour the concrete jungles of Sharm El Sheikh.
100km up the coast, the once-tiny fishing village of Dahab is no longer the hippy colony of twenty years ago. These days it's a divers' resort that is in the process of going upmarket, with smart hotels rising by the hour. We loved its laid-back charm.
Then there's the desert and the Sinai itself, an almost impenetrable labyrinth of granite buttresses and sandstone mountains. A couple of hours' drive inland, hidden in the folds of the rock, sits St Catherine's monastery; above looms Mount Sinai, which you can climb for a magical sunrise, so bring your hiking boots.


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Ramón Gato Moya (born ) is a former Cuban male volleyball player. He was part of the Cuba men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, finishing 7th. He played with La Fenice Volley Isernia.

See also
 Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics

References

External links
 profile at sports-reference.com

1973 births
Living people
Cuban men's volleyball players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players of Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
20th-century Cuban people


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Q: TFS2013 changes in the build template don't have any effect I changed a TFS2013 build template and the changes don't take any effect, even if I force an exception. The changes are properly checked-in. New defined arguments are visible in the logs, but none of the newly added additional activities are executed, neither visible in the logs.
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I didn't add any custom activities. I just added a new MSBuild activity just after the main build loop to build a WIX project. I also added some conditions to check whether there really is a WiX project to build or whether the given project exists.
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What could be a reason for that?
Thanks,
Juergen

A: In the XAML, there are 2 places where MSBuild is called, one for the "Clean" and one for the "Build".
If you add the activities to the just Clean activity, you won't see them run on the build. I usually just add my custom MSBuild stuff into both.


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Der Buffalo Park ist ein Cricket-Stadion in der südafrikanischen Stadt East London. Das Stadion dient als Heimstätte des Warriors.

Kapazität und Infrastruktur
Das Stadion hat eine Sitzplatzkapazität von 15.000 Plätzen. Die beiden Ends heißen Buffalo Park Drive End und Bunkers Hill End.

Nutzung
Internationales Cricket wird in dem Stadion seit 1992 gespielt, Test seit 2002. Beim Cricket World Cup 2003 fanden hier drei Partien statt.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Test-Cricket-Stadien

Einzelnachweise

Cricketstadion in Südafrika
Sport (East London, Südafrika)
Bauwerk in der Provinz Ostkap


Shiitake mushrooms are thinner and denser than cremini or button mushrooms; they'll brown quickly in the pan without releasing too much liquid. These mushrooms also have a rich, meaty flavor that boosts the bok choy and marries well with the toasted sesame oil.
Heat toasted sesame oil in a skillet over medium-high. Add bok choy; cook until browned, about 4 minutes. Reduce heat to medium; cover and cook until tender, 3 minutes. Remove bok choy from pan. Add toasted sesame oil and sliced shiitake mushrooms to pan; cook 2 minutes.
Stir in sliced green onions and minced garlic cloves; cook 30 seconds. Add cooked bok choy, fresh lime juice, kosher salt, and black pepper; cook 1 minute. Top with chopped cilantro and toasted sesame seeds.


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NL Notes: Cubs, McGwire, Nationals
By TC Zencka | October 23, 2018 at 3:51pm CDT
By renovating the historic Fenway Park in 2002, Boston augmented their baseball ops department with the quickening revenue streams from an improved stadium experience – a strategy Theo Epstein brought with him to Chicago, writes Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune. Additionally, both Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, under Epstein's leadership, have benefited from in-stadium advertising along the outfield walls – much like your local little league field. In Boston, the seats added above the Green Monster came complete with the ad billboards above. In Chicago, the bleachers were devoid of ad content until 2010 when a 360-foot Toyota sign was installed over the left field bleachers. Baseball purists may balk at these eyesores becoming a focal point of such historic stadiums, but the financial welfare afforded both franchises by these towering facades have produced previously-unmatched eras of on-field success. Lest we forget, Wrigley Field was called Weeghman Park until it was acquired by the chewing gum tycoon, so while it's not as obvious a money grab as southside rival Guaranteed Rate Field, the Cubs' northside stadium has long been financially-inspired – Epstein's major contribution is making these influxes of cash obvious on the field.
Now, some coaching updates around the National League…
Mark McGwire won't be returning as the Padres bench coach for 2019, per MLB.com's AJ Cassavell. McGwire is reportedly stepping down to spend more time with his family after two seasons as the bench coach in San Diego. Big Mac had previously spent three seasons apiece as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers. For the Padres, they will seek to avoid an extended search to fill their three coaching vacancies for 2019 (bench coach, hitting coach, and infield coach).
In other coaching news, the Washington Nationals will not be making any changes to their coaching staff prior to 2019, per Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post. Manager Dave Martinez returns for the second year of a three-year deal, hoping for a turnaround after a disappointing first year in Washington. Bench coach Chip Hale, hitting coach Kevin Long, and pitching coach Derek Lilliquist will return to buttress Martinez in the Washington dugout. Rounding out the coaching crew: former infielder Tim Bogar returns to the first base coaching box, Greg Maddux's former personal catcher Henry Blanco returns to coach in the bullpen and longtime third base coach Bob Henley returns in his usual role.
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Wrigley was Weeghman, not Weegham…
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The Cardinals should do all they can do to hire David Stern of the Brewers. Move Mozeliak out and pay him off. Move David Stern to the head of Cardinals baseball operations and have him work closely with Michael Girsch and give them the monetary support they need to build to the future by acquiring impact players instead of a complete starting line up of Mozeliak's favorite phrase, "Low Hanging Fruit!"
lowtalker1
The stadium was alway built for a now defaulted league and team and not the cubs.
The Chicago whales of the federal league
I'm thinking of taking my $1.6B lotto ticket and signing Harper, Machado, Donaldson, Corbin, and Keuchel for the Orioles, just to piss off NY and Boston
When I grew up advertising signage at ballparks was for low level bush league teams that couldn't draw fans – not major league parks.
But it's not enough that MLB players should earn 10-12 times more then successful people in the private sector, they need to make 20-30 times more. They have agents to pay. After all, it's a free market for the players…..when it's not a Union. Sweet.
Gil Gunderson
It's not a free market for players when there's only one major league to play in, unless you count Japan, Mexico, or South Korea.
joshua.barron1
Please, don't spew this nonsense, and instead take an introductory economics course. It's sickening that people think players making half of the industries revenues is outlandish – why should owners keep more than half? If McDonald's workers had an equal profit share with its employees, would you lambaste them for not following burger king's model of shoving minimum wage and hazardous working conditions?
YOU chose to spend your money on jerseys, tickets, cable TV, MLB.tv
TEAMS chose to spend the it budgets on players while maximizing profits. The ads would be there regardless of whether or not the players would be getting more money.
And yea, unions are so bad because it was great when people worked 14 hour days and lost limbs at work.
Are you a CEO? Lol
"YOU chose to spend your money on jerseys, tickets, cable TV, MLB.tv".
YOU talk out of your butt.
Neither I nor anyone in my family (or relatives families) wastes money on overpriced jerseys, tickets, or Cable TV.
We have MLB.TV because at just over $100 a year, it's cheap entertainment. I couldn't take the family to a major league game for that amount of money. And if they doubled the price to a bit over $200 a year, we'd find other things to do.
Heck, teams aren't even teams anymore with players moving around so much. Look at the WS teams. What is the percentage of players that have been on those teams for 3 years? 2 years? Like minor league teams with the roster turnover. What a joke. A jersey……half the guys are off the team before the fabric wrinkles.
the 1970's called, they've been wondering where you got to.
the rest of us prefer to live in this century, though, so you may not want to expose these opinions to public scrutiny, you'll be happier if your own little world…
May I add….
Most of my kids and their kids can't watch a major league game for 3 innings.
Told you Samuel, quite a few knuckle heads trolls on here that are clueless.
petrie000;
You're a funny kid.
P.T. Barnum lived long before the 70's, yet he had kids like you down cold.
TrueOutcomeFan
Lament the movement of players. I can appreciate that from a fan perspective (especially from someone I'm assuming from reading this exchange is a fan who has been watching the game for most of their life), but can we all agree that free agency is undeniably better than the reserve clause? I'm not here to argue if players are paid too much, but if you're upset at how much the players are making you're going to see red when you find out how much the owners are making by comparison. Sports has been big business for a long time. The advent of players getting their share as they are the real product and entertainment has been a long time coming.
i'm not funny, i'm just educated
You're whining about the fact that the players, the ones who in some cases literally bleed to make baseball a multi-billion dollar industry, as a collective get roughly half the profits on their own hard work… as opposed to the owners, who do comparatively little in the grand scheme of things
So yeah, you're trying to argue a bunch of rich guys deserve more money for no reason that you can actually articulate beyond 'things were better back in my day'
Just looking at the Dodgers WS roster, 11 of the 25 players have spent their entire MLB career with the Dodgers and no one else, for a combined 56 seasons of baseball.
This doesn't include guys like Matt Kemp, who has spent 11 of his 15 years in the MLB with the Dodgers, across two stints. Or guys like Justin Turner, who bounced around for years before settling with the Dodgers (and has spent the last 5 years with them).
In other words, a pretty high percentage.
Anything else you want to complain about with no substance?
deweybelongsinthehall
Free agency is better for the players but there is a point to be made with having a team you develop. How good could Tampa have been if they were able to keep their team together in the last ten years? How many WS would the 72-75ish A's have made if they stuck together? Unfortunately greedy owners was a main reason for needing unions (in general) and for Flood, McNally, Messersmith and Hunter to become free agents.
There used to be a time when attending a game was family entertainment.
how is it not anymore?
i mean, seriously, nothing substantial has changed in the experience in decades. It's not like baseball games taking 3 hours is a new phenomenon…
There's a failed economic system that loves to claim that it's the worker who is the means of production, and should reap the majority of the benefit from said production … you know their logo, I'm sure. Has a sickle and hammer.
johnrealtime
Some people seem to have this weird notion that if baseball players made less money, than the owners would reduce the prices of everything out of the goodness of their hearts. It is so strange to me how non-wealthy people take the side of corporations and billionaires and want them to have more money, instead of the talented players that we all pay to see.
Sure you are petrie0002.
Where I come from, people that are educated show it in their work, respect for disciplines, and those that went before them to create and bring along those disciplines.
People today talk all the time about how educated they are after they demean someone with snark because they can't discuss the issue.
Sort of like those that talk all the time about how much they're getting…..cause they aren't getting any.
This country now has an abundance of 30, 40 & 50 year-old NPC's.
tharrie0820
Justin Turner had only played for 2 teams..he hasn't "bounced around for years"
lesterdnightfly
petrie000:
News for you: EVERYONE lives in his or her "own little world".
Basic economics. Have you ever received a paycheck from a poor person? Do you know what a "corporation" is, or how it was born?
@tharrie0820 Professionally, Justin Turner has been in the CIN, BAL, NYM and LAD orgs.
Always pays to double check.
"How is it not?"
1) have you priced season tickets lately?
2) Families used to be able to afford to go to several games a season, sometimes on a whim. Nowadays, MLB ticket prices are approaching NFL and NBA prices. So much for the "great American pastime" being simple entertainment – for many, it's a once or twice a year "event" that is planned and budgeted for.
Tough to be a failure when it's never been put into ACTUAL practice.
Sadly, the cost has priced many families into the grandstands or bleachers or worse to watching the game at home. The cost including parking and food has hone well beyond the rate of inflation. In the late 70s, I had my first job at minimum wage. Six prime field box seats at Yankee Stadium between home and third cost me $32.25 including shipping. Deal witb my dad was if I saved for the tickets, he'd drive the family from CT, two hours away. It was a learning experience I never forgot. To save for what I wanted. When the day of the game arrived, my dad handed me a deposit ticket. He put the cost of the tickets in my bank savings account. Those sane seats are probably $200+ each today (guess) . Not realistic now
i did show my work right from the start by pointing out you're whining about something you don't even have a cursory understanding of.
You're just taking the tired and ignorant approach of 'men who play a game shouldn't make that much money, even though they make billions (literally, billions) of dollars for their employers'… which is frankly just stupid on any level. If you wish to actually explain why the rich owners deserves all the money simply because they had the money to buy a baseball team, feel free… but so far you haven't even attempted to.
your definition of intelligence is as out of date as you're opinions on baseball, frankly. You want deference to tradition, not active analysis and critical thought… basically you're demanding respect for something because it's old, not because it's better.
you can take that nonsense back to wherever you came from, the modern world has progressed beyond it at this point.
mattmonteith
"Tough to be a failure when it's never been put into ACTUAL practice," says every communist ever. Yawn.
juicemane
Omg dude i saw the angels on a Sunday for 28$ each, bought two tix, great seats. Saw Othani saw Trout, saw all of the Athletics young crop too. $10 bucks for parking, $50 for food and beer. Had a wonderful day for what some people will pay for one meal at a restaurant.
and 20 bucks is about the cost for a ticket to some forgettable movie these days, so with any sense of perspective it's not actually that outrageous.
pd14athletics
3. Orioles, Mets, Dodgers. "Bounced around" I do not believe describes it well, but "wasn't very good for a couple of teams before becoming an All Star in LA" would work.
Markets are different and perhaps cheaper seats might be available on the secondary market for non-impact games. Hard to plan a family event that way though and NY cost $40 to just park today. Agree everything has gone up and they should given it's 40 years. But 75 fold? People who have to choose will select a new family TV for what it costs to go to a game.
Inflation calculator estimated the cost today of just those six prime seats as going from $32 to slightly more than $130, less than the cost of one seat today.
Msvhs79
Petri000. Speak for yourself! Unless you lived and can remember the 70s then you can't comment on them! Not saying he was right but there were a lot of things that were actually better in the last century! I didn't say all I just said some! Oh and he is entitled to his opinion!
Rob B
To me it doesn't matter who gets the profits. They simply charge way to much for the whole experience.
Honestly though, at the price MLBtv is not a bad deal. Especially if you are an out of market fan with a little bit of time to watch and/or listen to your team. Or if you just like to watch baseball. In this era of HD, watching on tv is the way to go.
True, during the right promo tickets can be had at a reasonable price. But when your team of choice and/or the closest team to you is doing well, not so much.
The food and beer is ridiculously overpriced and the quality in most cases has gone down, down, down. This is where they really get you, and they wonder why attendance is lagging.
$20 for one movie ticket? No!
Maybe for a 3D matinee in Manhattan.
@cam – he did check. He was drafted by the Reds but made his MLB debut for the Orioles and also played for the Mets. So he is correct in saying that he had only played for two teams and hadn't bounced around for years.
It helps if you pay attention.
petrie000… Educated? Try opinionated.
howiet
Over 95 % of players changing teams is caused by the teams decision to move on from player in one form or another. Releasing player. Trading player. Simply not signing player. So few players actually choose to leave a place they've been for years. Blaming players is easy but not really the case.
Rondon : one can be both. Combining the two is usually how one gets good opinions. Substituting the latter for the former is what's lead to so many of the mind-bogglingly stupid comments seen on this thread so far…
lasershow45
How many teams does it take before you consider it bouncing around? You forgot Cincinnati, so 5 teams? 6? 10? Any more bouncing and Turner would have bounced himself right out of the league.
"Internet commenters are 'mind-bogglingly stupid.'"
— Internet commenter
(Shamelessly stolen, paraphrased and adapted.)
Listen guys, if you're broke…only you can solve that problem, not baseball prices. Some people can only afford the $5 admission to a county fair twice a year, some people go on vacation twice a year, some people couldn't afford a vacation for the past 5 years, its all about life goals and priorities. If paying 700$ a month for a car and insurance makes sense to you then of course you cant afford nothing else lol
i do so love it when people who can't address an actual comment make up one to respond to instead. makes them seem so much more credible….
The cost of tickets plus cost of food and drinks.
I remember when they had scheduled double headers. You'd pay for one ticket and see two games. Now, if a double header happens, they kick you out and make you buy another ticket.
mfm420
heck, if you had t-mobile this year, mlb tv would have cost you zero bucks (and you could stream it on your ps4, roku, etc…)
The global ignorance of communism and socialism as economic theories is utterly mind boggling.
ray_derek
Thank you johntealtime, spot on
I agree. But probably not in the manner you think.
He never played at the big league level for the Reds. He was traded as a minor leaguer, I wouldn't call being traded bouncing around. He did get bounced from the Orioles the next season though and landed with the Mets for 3 seasons. When they non tendered him LA picked him up and has signed him to an extension.
To answer your question more than 3 in 10 years.
Dodgethis
Your lack of basic knowledge is appalling. Unions have nothing to do with federal labor laws. Unions and minimum wage laws are designed to help substandard and incompetent workers. People who are worth something hate unions. People who understand basic math hate unions. Just because a person decided to play in the league doesn't mean they somehow deserve a huge percentage of income. Thousands and thousands of people contributed to the league and it's ability to make money. Players do nothing but play. They didn't form the league, they didn't develop it, they didn't take any risk or put up any money or time to make the league work. Workers are just that, workers. And workers barely deserve the meager pay they already receive. People who are worth it make more money. It's sad that communists like you can't comprehend basic economics or business.
tsolid
"Players didn't make the league". How would there be a league w/o the players? I'm pretty sure players did/do make the league. The BEST of The BEST is what make the product what it is. Because of the PLAYERS billions are invested by networks/corporations. It's too bad you're too big of an idiot to see those simple facts.
this is either god-tier trolling or disturbingly sociopathic… please tell me it's the former…
Your economic model is completely upside-down.
retire21
Shockingly misinformed regarding unions. Wow.
Cubguy13
Dodgethis, I hope you are just trying to be a troll and aren't really that ignorant of a person
@Dodgerhis – dude what you said is so backwards and twisted that most responders assume you must be joking, that you can't be serious.
Based on your communists remark at the end I think you are not. IDK where you are getting this crap from but you need to take a hard look in the mirror bud.
Please, tell me more about basic economics. I, for one, am on the edge of my seat waiting for this education.
Firstly, this isn't the forum for that.
Secondly, overcoming your indoctrination with actual education would be on par with teaching physics to a rock.
Well, that wasn't directed at you, SDHotDawg, but since you brought it up… Physics was never my strong suit (Trig and Calc were a struggle for me as a teen), but I am very interested in the theory of relativity. Can you enlighten me? Imagine I'm a rock, this should be easy for you.
I agree with most of what you say but Yes! People definitely would lambaste McD's or any fast food employees for way less than that.
They have time and time again when they have went on strike in NYC and/ or complained about the minimum wage anywhere else in the country.
gangaji
talk about how much stock brokers make right out of colleges.
Stock brokers don't make nearly as much as you think they do. Especially not right out of college.
i have several relatives in the industry. and they do.
they make millions doing the hard work that lets the owners makes billions…
when you can claim to be that valuable as an individual to your employer and don't get paid at the same rates, then you can whine about how unfair it is.
Dennid
Bingo. It won't be popular on this thread I'm sure but you are spot on.
It's different from how I grew up, therefore it's wrong!
WTH does this really have to do with signage at the ballpark? You don't even draw the comparison.
I'm fairly certain the players are not brokering that deal. And I'm also fairly certain that the owners are not doing because they have to to make their payroll.
Owners are wealthy, players are rich. Most of these guys don't give a hack about anything but their own bottom line. Quit watching! Stop going!
Mac is scumbag
mack22
At least he admitted it. More than Bonds or Sosa are willing to do. The guy honestly thinks it just helped him overcome injuries and that is just mwathead arrogance at its best. Which he is not the only 1 guilty of.
What about ARod? Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz? Why do they get a pass?
justin-turner overdrive
It was always so weird Mac got hired as a coach, was he admitting that he was a bad hitter, being that bad hitters make the best coaches? Were the roids REALLY that good?
McGwire and Sosa saved baseball, did some forget about the strike
did someone forget about how their methods for 'saving' it almost destroyed it a decade later?….
Bocephus
News Flash…MLB is barely on life support now.
The league exceeded $10 billion in revenue in 2017.
Google..the state of MLB
#3 sport and falling
you're gonna have your work cut out for you proving that one, sparky. The actual data is not in your favor.
And still turning record profits.
Losing Fans, not adding fans, fans that they do have average age 55.
World Series games beaten by NFL games in Ratings.
Fallen behind NBA in popularity.
you telling us to google something is not the same as you supporting a dubious claim
my bet is you're going to tell us it's TV ratings, which are frankly irrelevant these days as a measure of popularity given how many people don't even own TVs anymore.
baseball's revenue streams are just fine as far as anybody knows
Oh forgot the present and growing animosity between the union and the owners.
Ratings are figured from all forms of streaming services. To say ratings aren't relevant or don't matter to anything is wrong
to say ratings include all forms of streaming services is actually wrong, because not all streaming services make their viewership data available to third parties to calculate them… which means any 'ratings' you're going to get are going to be partially incomplete.
and baseball's had it's longest era of labor peace since the union became a thing, so you're really grasping at straws with that one.
theories need to be crafted around facts, facts aren't bent to fit theories.
Businessinsider.com..Nielsen ratings include all forms of streaming such as Hulu and Youtube. Services such as MLB.com's broadcasts are from local cable contracts so those ratings are counted. Facebook just started carrying limited games and will soon be counted.
Too many outlets to list stating the troubles with MLB, but try USA Today.com. So which other thing I listed such as the age do you dispute, or maybe the loss in popularity to the NBA. How about the many things that is angering the union and a collective bargaining agreement ending soon?
no thanks, USAToday is a terrible sports journalism outlet. have been for a while.
but again, if you're still basing this argument that they're 'dying' entirely on an outdated and highly questionable system such as 'ratings', it's not a subject you're going to be taken seriously on.
baseball's drowning in money, even the 'small market' teams. That doesn't happen when you're 'dying'…
Comeback of the Year ! Did you make that "whatever" thing up yourself?
Stronger than your HS!
"No thanks?"
You can't demand a source and then say it doesn't count because you don't like it.
Cofirmation bias at its worst.
i never sad it didn't count, just said it was a pretty bad source. If you want to take anything USAToday says at face value, that's fine… but one source that's not exactly known for quality also is not irrefutable confirmation of a position.
But really the problem with his arguments is he's telling us where to look for information that he himself apparently can't articulate. Stating a position, then telling someone to google it when asked to explain it is a very poor way of convincing anyone you know what you're talking about.
His basic argument is 'baseball is dying because i read it somewhere'. And when asked to provide specific information, the response is 'look it up for yourself'. Highly, highly unconvincing.
Was gonna also throw out the second of many sources/sites ESPN, but I'm sure that's no good either.
Who pays most of the bills at tv/streaming services but advertising dollars. World Series isn't streaming on twitter which carries ads) that I know of.
How about showing where you found MLB is growing, or adding fans. How about other than what it made, because the top two sports also profited..more by the way.
there's a huge difference between growing and dying… there's a vast middle ground known as 'stable', which is a very very good place to be as an billion-dollar industry. Ricky Bobby's dad was high when he said 'when you're not first, you're last', remember.
and who pays the bills these days is mostly gate fees, merchandise sales and exclusive TV contracts for regional coverage, which by definition isn't a nationwide deal and so, logically, is never going to have the same level of national ratings as the TV deals the NFL (which actually is having huge trouble) and the NBA.
You just honestly don't seem to understand baseball's economic model.. They're not the NFL or NBA, who's marketing campaigns are built almost entirely around the post season. Baseball is a far more localized model, which each team getting the lion's share of it's media revenue from local TV contracts that pay out extremely well. if baseball wasn't earning these networks money, they won't be paying for the media rights.
The fact that 28 fanbases are largely ambivalent about the WS doesn't mean baseball doesn't have fans, just means most of those fans aren't Red Sox or Dodgers fans.
Yea. Teams like Marlins selling for over a billion dollars. Life Support??
yogineely
Let's completely throw out the fact that nfl only has 16 games that play on a weekend or at night while baseball will play 4 games at 1pm through out the week. NFL will be gone in 20 years, just like boxing is and stopped becoming popular after the head trauma.
lol "NFL will be gone in 20 years" and MLB in 10 years. What Bocephus failed to mention MLB attendance is at a 15 year low. Take what he said of the average age of fans, and almost all MLB fans will be mostly dead in 20 years.
MLB knew what was going on and turned their head because attendance was back on track. Cheating in baseball existed before the homerun barrage and probably still happens but not on the same manner. How does spin rate increase 100% in 1 year?
MLB was %100 complicit in what the players were doing. They feigned ignorance while cutting hefty to checks to these guys. The fact the Bud Selig will sail into the HOF without batting an eye, yet people like Mcgwire and Sosa get ostracized is a bad joke to anyone with half a brain
but the point still stands, did they 'save' it or did they just put it on life support until baseball cleaned itself up?
Loaded balls probably allows for the spin but also when contact is made, the off field homers.
Those two were not the only two juicing during that period. And at the time the substances they took weren't even banned by MLB.
Cat Mando
"And at the time the substances they took weren't even banned by MLB." is one misnomer that always gets me.
Fay Vincent banned all controlled substances on June, 7 1991.stating in an official memo…."The possession, sale, or use of any illegal drug or controlled substance by major league players and personnel is strictly prohibited. Those involved in the possession, sale, or use of any illegal drug or controlled substance are subject to discipline by the commissioner and risk permanent expulsion from the game." and specifically mentioned steroids saying "This prohibition applies to all illegal drugs and controlled substances, including steroids or prescription drugs for which the individual in possession of the drug does not have a prescription."
Vincent also outlined a testing program but the union, headed by Donald Fehr, rejected testing out of hand and "claimed, with great moral high ground, steroid testing would be a violation of the players' "privacy.""
Notice the " "….. you can google those remarks and find multiple sources.
Androstenedione was not on that list.
"Androstenedione was not on that list."…..not until 2006 but "Mark McGwire finally came clean, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade. During a 20-minute telephone interview shortly afterward, his voice repeatedly cracked".
Jan 11, 2010 He also admitted to using HGH
it's estimated that about 90% of all players of the era used steroids. even the pitchers.
90%??
Source? Link?
The strike is what hurt baseball.
It's a myth that they saved baseball.
EndinStealth
Baseball wasnt dying, but the along with Jr. gave it a boost.
What saved baseball?
Video killed the radio star!
I'm not sure what this means or where you're going, but it's a rabbit hole I'd jump down.
McGwire and Sosa didn't roid up out of the goodness of their hearts, on a noble quest to save baseball. They are cheaters that happened to help the game but likely hurt it in the long run
The statement had to do with their merits saving baseball, not roiding..up to save baseball, but baseball was well aware of what was going on, as the hat sizes in baseball at that time were at an all time high.
Letting Big Mac be a hitting coach is like putting Sammy Sosa in charge of the bat rack.
You Do know that a lot of MLB hitting coaches never were Good ML hitters, right? I gather that's what you're referring to about Big Mac not being a "good" hitter.
He was a cheater.
Doesn't belong wearing ANY MLB uniform…even on Halloween
geich
The Mets Yankees and Red Sox have a bit of a history with cheaters also. Be careful throwing stones
You're really not going to like what was in the Mitchell Report.
His second comment was even more ridiculous than the first one. LOL
And this is the guy complaining about trolls on this board. It's like how Trump calls everyone else liars and corrupt. A troll calling others a troll is the ultimate troll move
Every team had and might still have cheaters.
The funny thing is a corked bat wouldn't really help at all. Yeah, it's lighter, but it's also less dense.
Are you, by chance, referring to the Myth Busters episode? Because, if I remember correctly, they didn't account for the increased speed the corked bat would provide and that always bugged me why that variable wouldn't be accounted for in their experiments.
Kwflanne
Not sure why the Padres would bother hiring a hitting coach…. he will just end up being fired at this time next year anyways…. like matt stairs…. and about 8-9 hitting coaches that preceded him
SixFlagsMagicPadres
If the Cleveland Browns can finally figure out their quarterback situation after all these years, maybe the Padres will someday figure out how to find a hitting coach that sticks.
The solution is to acquire and develop players that can hit.
Yes, that would certainly help. But in order to keep most of them hitting well and making good adjustments at the MLB level, there needs to be a competent hitting coach. When players are openly ignoring the coaches' advice (like they were doing with Stairs), there's a problem.
Quitting to "spend time with his family" is possible, but it sure is a tired and dried out euphemism.
He might just be tired of coaching a bad team and having to deal with divas like Wil Myers. I don't blame him. Not to mention the stigma he still has from his past steroid use as a player.
padreforlife
Aka Urban Meyer
Doesn't it strike people as odd that two perennially profitable franchises couldn't afford to staff their baseball ops department until they renovated their stadiums? This is a multi-billion dollar industry. Maybe Paul Sullivan unintentionally exaggerated?
Just like players, executives are paid more now than they used to be. With the high focus on analytics, execs have more responsibilities and thus get paid more
I'm not sure people truly understand how far behind the curb the Cubs were as far as staffing in their FO.
signedepsteinsmother
Paul Sullivan is a whiney hack. Always has been and always will be.
So many odd takes in this thread.
The level of toxicity and number of trolls in these comments sections has been growing each year since around 2013.
outinleftfield
Padres should bring up Rod Barajas as bench coach and Morgan Burkhart as hitting coach. They were the Chihuahuas Manager and Hitting Coach.
Papabueno
Oh goody. Another year of Davey Martinez and his misfit coaching staff. Wonder how long it will take Kevin Long to screw of Juan Soto's swing? Last season his launch angle obsession ruined Trea Turner pretty quick.
"… the bleachers were devoid of ad content until 2010 when a 360-foot Toyota sign was installed over the left field bleachers."
A 360-foot sign?
That's more than the entire length of right field (353 ft) or the height of a 40-story building. Unless people in Chicago are 10-foot giants, someone's got their numbers wrong.
link to cbschicago.files.wordpress.com
saluelthpops
As I read about the enhancements in advertising—and what the author termed a "money grab"—I can't get through the comments here without adds for some musical popping up every 20 seconds. The irony.


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Friday, Friday, Gotta Get Unemployment Down on Friday
Patrick Caldwell, Jaime Fuller
Today's Ringside Seat: With the election over, only wonks are paying attention to the jobs numbers.
The first Friday morning of the first 11 months of 2012 brought exciting news for political journalists. At exactly 8:30 a.m. the Bureau of Labor Statistics would upload the latest jobs report to the Internet. The agency's website would often crash as journalists rushed to pore over the figures. Cable news spent hours parsing through the shifts in the inevitable topline figure: whether the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went up or down. Were they examining these reports to assess the state of the economy, trying to discern the next best steps for the government to correct our path out of the recession? Of course not. These speculations focused on how the new set of numbers might swing the presidential election.
This once-monthly ritual of political reporters anxiously refreshing Twitter on the edge of their seats had a little less oomph today. The normal economic wonks pushed out the numbers, but beyond that the press corps noted the slight drop in the unemployment rate (it dipped from 7.9 to 7.7 percent) and went on with its day. It's a relief to no longer listen to baseless speculation about how each shift in the numbers could Change Everything, to be relieved of the breathless pearl-clutching at the new numbers. It was always a futile exercise; after all, the numbers are far from absolute, always to be revised in coming months, and only a spectacularly bad report was going to (maybe) make a real difference in Romney vs. Obama.
But that doesn't mean these numbers should be ignored. Now that the jobs report possesses no electoral implications, the political conversation needs to shift back to determining ways to lift the country out of the doldrums. This month's report of 146,000 is about average for 2012. That wouldn't be a terrible number in a normal economy, but it's an anemic pace of recovery for an economy still sputtering out from the worst recession since the Great Depression—a rate of job growth that barely keeps up with population growth, hardly enough to correct for the millions struggling to find work.
President Obama included new stimulus in his proposal to solve the fiscal cliff impasse. He advocated for an extension of the payroll tax holiday, new investment in infrastructure, and an extension of unemployment insurance. All told it would amount to around $200 billion in additional stimulus. The jobs report might not have grabbed as many headlines this month, but it does provide a handy reminder about the need for further government action to bolster the economy.
So They Say
"This isn't a progress report because there's no progress to report."
—House Speaker John Boehner with your daily fiscal cliff update
Daily Meme: Election 2012's Last Weeks, By the Numbers
The last FEC reports of the 2012 election have finally been filed, and the final tally is official: The Obama v. Romney presidential race cost more than $2 billion.
Yes. TWO. BILLION. DOLLARS.
The big tally was helped along by some last-minute cash infusions from big donors like Sheldon Adelson, who poured $33 million into Romney-supporting super PAC coffers in the election's last weeks.
But most of the money coming in after October 18 was from small donors—the average donation for the time period was $41.
Twenty percent of that last-minute money went to Obama-supporting super PAC Priorities USA.
Obama currently holds the record for the best presidential fundraiser ever; guess the "I will be outspent" worries were overblown.
$900 million of that $2 billion was spent on the endless television ads no one misses.
Mitt Romney's super PAC was wasting a cool $7 million a day at the end of the election.
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The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) will hold its next Institute on April 30-May 2, 2018, at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Learning Center located at 655 K St, NW, Washington, DC 20001. The Spring 2018 IPEC Institute is returning to the popular theme of building a framework for interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice.
Registration for this Institute is now open. To register your team, click here.
The IPEC Institute will begin at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, April 30, 2018. All participants must arrive the afternoon or evening of Sunday, April 29, 2018. The Institute will conclude at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. The view the full agenda, click here.
All participants must book their travel itinerary to attend the entirety of the Institute and schedule to depart after the closing session. Please schedule all outbound flights to depart at least 2 hours after the Institute conclusion on Wednesday afternoon.
1. Identify resources and commitments necessary to facilitate IPE at one's institution.
2. Examine best practices in IPE curriculum planning and design for use in one's program.
3. Create learner assessment strategies in IPE.
4. Develop faculty skills in IPE.
5. Communicate the team's IPE objectives to decision makers.
In addition, registered teams will be assigned preparatory readings and participate in Institute-related assessments.
Pre-course reading activities will be assigned prior to the face-to-face workshop, and the entirety of the Institute will afford opportunities for networking and a community of focused, collegial collaboration. Upon returning to their home institutions, workshop participants will be better prepared to develop faculty teams with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement an IPE plan.
Interprofessional teams must consist of at least three members and at most five members.
One member with institutional responsibility for curricular planning.
*If your institution is associated with a healthcare service facility such as a VA, local community health center, or affiliated medical center, or a partner organization, such as a local health department or community-based agency, please strongly consider adding a representative from that facility to your team.
The designated team organizer will become the primary contact with IPEC and should ensure the team meets all requirements.
Interprofessional faculty teams of three to five individuals from across the post-baccalaureate health professions along with their selected academic and/or practice partners.
Participants will engage with national leaders in acquiring the building blocks for IPE. Teams will spend significant time interacting within their own groups to plan, build, design, assess, and act on their IPE goals as well as communicate effectively about IPE. Opportunities to interact with other teams in information sharing and networking, including poster presentations, will further enhance team learning. Pre-course readings will provide context and stimulate questions for exploration during the Institute. Daily electronic evaluations will serve to check on learning and reactions to each day's events for continuous quality programming enhancement.
The early bird cost to attend the conference is $1,495 per person, which includes the registration fee, breakfasts, lunches, and hotel accommodations (single occupancy rooms) for three nights (check-in date of April 29, 2018 and check-out date of May 2, 2018).
When online registration opens, you must register as a team: Please prepare your budget accordingly and gather required individual information to streamline the process. Payment must be made by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express) or institutional check. We do not accept purchase orders.
Note: Your team's space is not secure until full payment is received. Once your team has registered and submitted full payment, your team has secured space at the Institute. Please note that you will be responsible for dinner each night.
All registration cancellations and refund requests must be made in writing by February 16, 2017. A refund of the conference, minus a $250 administrative fee, will be given for cancellations received by that date. No refunds will be granted for requests received after February 16, 2018. Submit all requests to Shelley McKearney via email at smckearney@aacnnursing.org. Conference registrations are fully transferrable (see Substitution Policy); however, conference fees cannot be transferred to other IPEC conferences. We regret that refunds will not be provided for no-shows.
Registration substitutions for individual team member registrants are permitted prior to the conference; however, conference fees cannot be transferred to other IPEC conferences. Only one substitution is permitted per original registrant. The individual submitting the substitution request is responsible for all financial obligations (any balance due) associated with that substitution as well as updating any contact information and hotel reservation details. Submit all requests to Shelley McKearney via email at smckearney@aacnnursing.org.
The Institute will be held at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Learning Center at 655 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Your registration fee includes accommodations for three nights at a nearby hotel. Reduced conference rates represent a portion of your entire registration fee and cannot be separated out. IPEC will be placing hotel reservations for attendee.
There are several transportation options to/from the Institute venue.
Reagan National Airport (DCA) is located approximately 15 minutes from the AAMC Learning Center and is metro accessible. Taxis from DCA (approximately $25 each way) or Super Shuttle from DCA (approximately $16 each way for a shared-ride van) are available. The closest Metro station to the AAMC building is Mt. Vernon/7th Street Convention Center on the Yellow/Green lines, 2 blocks from the Learning Center.
Dulles International Airport (IAD) is almost 40 minutes from the AAMC Learning Center. Taxis from IAD can cost up to $75 one way or a Super Shuttle from IAD to the AAMC Learning Center can cost approximately $30 each way (for a shared-ride van).
Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) is about 45 minutes from the AAMC Learning Center. Taxis from BWI cost around $85 one way, while a Super Shuttle from BWI to the AAMC Learning Center costs approximately $40 each way (for a shared-ride van). From BWI, you may also take an Amtrak train to Union Station in Washington, DC and then take the Metro several stops or a taxi to the Learning Center.
Eligible attendees may receive Certified in Public Health (CPH) continuing education credits for participating in this institute. The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) works with the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) to provide CPH credits.
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Abe Trone, DVM, grew up on a small farm in West Central Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois in 2003. He started at the Lena Veterinary Clinic in 2003 and works primarily with dairy cattle, horses and small ruminants. He utilizes ultrasound in all species primarily for pregnancy diagnosis and implementation of reproductive programs. Equine services he specializes in are reproduction, dentistry, foal care and lameness work. Herd health with ultrasound, fetal sexing and troubleshooting herd issues, are areas of interest in dairy. His wife, Peggy, is the Education Coordinator at the Stephenson County Farm Bureau. They have five children Owen, Evan, Merrick, Grace, and Faith. His hobbies include camping, hunting, fishing, and any other outdoor activities with the kids.
Cary Schroeder, DVM, is from Lost Nation, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1984. He started at the Lena Veterinary Clinic in January of 1991. Dr. Schroeder's current emphasis is bovine medicine, reproduction, and embryo transfer. Cary is married to Sarah and together they have three children and two grandsons. His hobbies include golfing, hunting, and coaching baseball.
Russ Weston, DVM, grew up on a small farm in Northeast Iowa. He attended Starmont High School and received his DVM from Iowa State University in 1973. After practicing in Edgerton, Wisconsin, Russ and his wife, Helen, moved to Lena in 1974. Dr. Weston's primary interests are bovine reproduction, including ultrasound and fetal sexing, and milk quality. Russ particularly enjoys the privilege of great personal friendships with many farm families and colleague veterinarians. Helen and Russ have been blessed with five children who with their spouses, have brought them fifteen grandchildren. His personal interests include golf, worship and activities at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lena, and time spent in any activity with his family.
Ken Fiedler, DVM, grew up in the Scales Mound/ Galena area on a small dairy farm and ever since he could remember he wanted to be a veterinarian. He graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois in 1983. At the Lena Veterinary Clinic, Dr. Fiedler specializes in the companion animal area of the practice, that involves mainly working with dogs and cats, but also includes other animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, and some avian. He enjoys small animal medicine and surgery, especially soft tissue surgery. Ken is married to Diane, who is a pharmacist at the Lena Drug Store. Together they have four children - Ava, Grant, Will, and Dorthea. They have two dogs - Bella & Cooper. They also have two cats, Socks, the midnight sock snatcher; and Slugger, the fat cat. His hobbies mainly include keeping up with his kids' activities, including volleyball, soccer, wrestling, and dance. He also enjoys gardening, working around his home, and occasionally traveling.
Jim Moest, DVM, grew up on a farm in Stephenson County and graduated from Freeport High School in 1983. He attended the University of Illinois after high school, graduating from the University Of Illinois College Of Veterinary Medicine in 1990. After graduation from veterinary school, Dr. Moest practiced for two years at Western Illinois Veterinary Clinic in Quincy, Illinois. In August of 1992, he joined the staff at the Lena Veterinary Clinic where he has practiced for the last twenty years. He enjoys all aspects of veterinary medicine, with the large majority of his career devoted to food animal practice. Within our food animal practice, Dr. Moest focuses on assisting our swine producers in remaining competitive. Jim has been married to his wife, Jolene, for 20+ years. He and Jolene have four children, Elizabeth, Jacob, Nicole, and Jacquelyn. Jolene set aside her teaching career to take care of their children, but has recently reentered the profession as a substitute teacher in the Pearl City and Le-Win school districts.
Dave Bergemann, DVM, was born and raised in Freeport, Illinois. He graduated from Freeport High School in 1977 and received his Associate of Science from Highland Community College in 1979. Dr. Bergemann attended the University Of Illinois College Of Veterinary Medicine and graduated in 1983 with a DVM degree. He began practice at the Freeport Animal Hospital in 1983 and practiced mixed animal practice there until 1986. In May of 1986, he took a position at the Lena Veterinary Clinic and continues to practice here with enjoyment. Dr. Bergemann presently focuses primarily on food animals with a dairy emphasis. Dave married his wife, June, in 1981 and they have four children: Nicholas, Sarah (Goeke), Timothy, and Michael. They also have four grandchildren: Cohen, Kadyn, Eliana, and Jaxsen Goeke. Dave enjoys playing golf, both traditional and disc. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren. Dave has been active in the community with the Jaycees, residential housing development, and was the founder and operator of the Lena Haunted Barn for twenty years.
Josh Hillesheim, DVM, grew up in New Ulm, MN and graduated from Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2015. Through high school and college, he became more immersed in dairy and swine medicine. He enjoys working with all species and his areas of interest include analyzing a given situation in relation to herd health and milk quality. In his free time he enjoys road biking, fishing, canoeing, and following Minnesota sports.
Brandon Scharping, DVM, grew up in Bangor, WI, graduating from Bangor High School in 2010. While growing up he showed and judged dairy cattle through 4-H and FFA. Dr. Scharping earned a Bachelor's Degree in Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Throughout veterinary school he worked as an artificial insemination technician, and gained interest in cattle reproduction. Dr. Scharping enjoys dairy production medicine, and likes to help dairy producers remain profitable and progressive. His hobbies include camping, fishing, running, attending country music concerts, and cheering for the Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badger Athletics.
Alec Frits, DVM, graduated from the University of Illinois in 2018 and started practicing at the Lena Vet Clinic in March 2019. His professional interests includes a variety of mixed animal medicine - from small animal soft tissue surgery and primary care medicine to pregnancy checking cows and managing herd health. He particularly enjoys this variety and spending each day doing something new and different! Dr. Alec graduated from Lena High School in 2009 and is excited to be back in the area with family and friends. Some of Dr. Frits' other interests include fishing, hiking, hunting, skiing, running and attending sporting events. He is an advocate for the Chicago Cubs, Bears & Blackhawks!
Alison Smith, CVT, grew up on a farm in the Mt. Morris area. She graduated from Joliet Junior College in 2005 as a Certified Veterinary Technician. Alison joined our practice in 2005 and is primarily the large animal veterinary technician. Alison is married to Albert and together they live in Leaf River on a farm with their daughter Alana, son Allan, two dogs, cows, and horses.
Vicki Schamberger grew up in the Pearl City area and studied accounting at Highland Community College. She started at the Lena Veterinary Clinic in October of 2002 and is our inventory manager. She lives in rural Lena with her husband Randy. Vicki enjoys antiquing, reading, gardening, knitting, and most of all, spending time with her grandchildren. She has four lovely cats.
Misti Schweertman started working at the Lena Vet Clinic in October 2011. She is our office manager and large animal receptionist, but also enjoys assisting with small animal patients when needed. Misti grew up in the Freeport area and graduated from Highland Community College with her Associates in 2010 and received her Bachelor's degree in Human Services from Columbia College in 2013. She and her husband live in Forreston with their two dogs and together they raise and show sheep. Some of her other hobbies include traveling, reading, and hiking with the dogs.
Kim Mehringer went to school in Naperville and moved to the area in 2003. She started at the Lena Veterinary Clinic in August of 2012 and has been bringing her animals here for the past 22 years. She is an animal lover and has dogs, horses, and a cat. Her hobbies included ballroom dancing with her husband, horseback riding, skiing and hiking with her dogs.
Kelsey Bernet, CVT, grew up on a farm in Monticello, WI. She became a Certified Veterinary Technician at Globe University - Madison West in October of 2012. Kelsey now resides in Cedarville, IL with her fiance Lance and her Rottie "Dez". She joined the Lena Veterinary Clinic in May of 2013. She works with both large and small animals at our practice. She enjoys walking her dog, cooking, watching sports, boating, and gardening.
Courtney Miller, CVT, graduated from Freeport High School in 2010. She grew up in Freeport and became a Certified Veterinary Technician at Globe University-Madison West in June of 2016. Courtney now resides in Lena with her husband, three children, two cats, and two dogs. Her hobbies include doing fun activities with her children, traveling, spending quality time with friends/family, and having date nights with her husband.
Colleen Kappes is our small animal receptionist. She has been working at the Lena Veterinary Clinic since August of 2003. Her job duties include answering phones, scheduling appointments and surgeries, and ordering small animal inventory items. She is originally from Freeport but now lives in Stockton. Colleen loves working with all animals, but is a cat person. She has two children and four cats.
Emily Korf, CVT, graduated from Forreston High School in 2012. She became a Certified Veterinary Technician at Rockford Career College in March of 2017. Emily lives in Freeport with her beloved dog named Berkeley. She enjoys working with both large and small animals at our practice. Emily enjoys taking her dogs for walks and traveling.
Jamie Holman fills many roles at the clinic, specifically working in the milk lab, covering both large and small animal phones, and working as a veterinary assistant. Jamie grew up on a dairy farm, just outside of Davis, Illinois. She and her husband now live on a small farm in the Freeport area and have 2 children, Jalen and Grant. Prior to joining our clinic, she worked in the banking industry for several years, then became a stay-at-home mom. Her hobbies are attending Grant's sporting events, watching her daughter show dairy goats, baking apple pies with her mother, horseback riding, kayaking, and boating.
Jessanna Darin, CVT, started at the Lena Vet Clinic in December of 2016 after graduating from Rockford Career College. Jessanna is originally from Rockton, but now lives in Durand with her husband, Nathan. Like many of our staff members, Jessanna has several roles at the clinic including assisting with small animal appointments and surgery, large animal chute work, and working in our milk quality lab. Jessanna was previously a CBRN Sargent in the Army National Guard for 6 years. She and Nathan have many pets including 2 dogs (Stella and Rosie), 1 cat (Whisker Biscuit), 1 goose (Uncle Waldo), and several chickens. Her hobbies include art, carving, and spending time with her many animals.


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